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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

cchumley@washingtontimes.com

Cheryl Chumley is online opinion editor, commentary writer and host of the “Bold and Blunt” podcast for The Washington Times, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” and “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall.” Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, July 21, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente, File)

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders admits ‘crisis at the border’

Sen. Bernie Sanders, a socialist who dabbles with the independents and Democrats -- wherever the votes are, there he goes -- said during a recent interview on ABC that there is a "crisis at the border." And this is interesting because socialists generally love open borders.

August 26, 2024
This combination photo shows Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally on May 1, 2024, in Waukesha, Wis., left, and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. during a campaign event, Oct. 9, 2023, in Philadelphia. Trump is addressing the Libertarian National Convention Saturday, May 25, 2024, courting a segment of the conservative electorate that's often skeptical of the former president's bombast while trying to ensure attendees aren't drawn to independent White House hopeful Kennedy, Jr. (AP Photo)

RFK Jr. fixes Trump’s one weak spot

Trump's one big weakness with some in the conservative camp was his COVID response. RFK's one big strength with most in the conservative camp was his COVID response. Their alliance is a meeting of mighty forces.

August 24, 2024
Protesters march during a demonstration outside the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Harris, the ‘president of joy?’ There’s no joy in Dem-ville

Choose the "president of joy," Bill Clinton said, from the Democrats' convention stage, telling voters to pick Kamala Harris, not Donald Trump. What a rebrand. File it under the famous Joseph Goebbels quote about repeating a lie often enough so that it becomes accepted as truth. This is classic Democrat propaganda.

August 23, 2024
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff listen to first lady Jill Biden speak during the Democratic National Convention Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Democrats at DNC cry ‘freedom!’ — but mean ‘control’

An interesting thing happened on the way to the formal nomination of Kamala Harris as the Democrat Party's pick for president -- namely, the DNC made a play for conservatives' bread and butter by scooping up the rallying call, "Freedom!" Gentlemen, start your gaslit engines.

August 22, 2024
President Joe Biden embraces Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris as first lady Jill Biden hugs second gentleman Doug Emhoff during the first day of Democratic National Convention, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

DNC hoopla distracts from Democrats’ lies on economy, jobs

The big news out of Chicago is that Kamala Harris won the necessary number of votes to make her party's coup against Joe Biden valid and to formally usher her into the picture as the genuine Democrat Party pick for president. The big news to the rest of us is a million jobs just disappeared overnight.

August 21, 2024
Protesters march to the Democratic National Convention after a rally at Union Park Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Democrat-run public schools on display with lunatic DNC protesters

Pro-Palestinian -- pro-Hamas! -- protesters-slash-agitators flooded the outskirts of the Democrat National Convention, demanding Democrats stop supporting Israel; legalize all the illegals; open borders wider for more; legalize abortion-on-demand, yada, yada. Welcome to the world of Democrat-run public education.

August 20, 2024
Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling speaks to reporters in Chicago Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. Snelling appeared with city officials and Derek Mayer, left, U.S. Secret Service deputy special agent in charge, to talk about the city's readiness to host the Democratic National Convention next week. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

Democrats kick off convention with typical, mind-blowing hypocrisy

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has called to standby status about 150 members of the Illinois National Guard to assist the already sizable police presence -- including those from departments outside Chicago -- on hand to handle the expected crowds, protesters and agitators at this week's Democrat National Convention. It's good to be a Democrat politician. They get all the security. Just ask Donald Trump.

August 19, 2024
Sen. Kamala Harris D-Calif. speaks at the 2017 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference, Tuesday, March 28, 2017, at the Washington Convention Center in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Confucius say: Democrats are right to hide Harris

That's her particular brand of politicking: spouting off absent care or concern of content -- all the intellectualism of a Chinese fortune in a cookie. Confucius say; Kamala say. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Democrats have it right by keeping her as quiet as possible

August 16, 2024
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz arrive during a campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson) **FILE**

Harris takes page from communist Cuba’s playbook with war on prices

Kamala Harris has announced a war on prices that calls out companies for raising prices and that promises her White House will stop companies from raising prices. Well, at least she's acknowledging the economy that she and President Biden created sucks. But her fix isn't a fix. It's akin to what Cuba just did.

August 16, 2024
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump enters at a campaign event, June 18, 2024, in Racine, WisTHE. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps, File)

Bold & Blunt: Success 101: How to make winning recession-proof

Self-improvement is a multi-billion dollar business in America, and there's a reason for that: People are largely dissatisfied with their levels of success in life, and they want to improve. There are several key characteristics shared by successful people. But it's probably not what you think.

August 15, 2024
A youth gets a shot of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine during a vaccination drive at University Stadium in Mexico City, Friday, July 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

COVID consequences: Childhood vaccines fall from parental favor

Fewer Americans today see the importance of childhood vaccines, with the most dramatic declines in parental approvals of the normal vaccine schedule for newborns through 18-year-olds taking place after 2019 -- in the post-COVID, shot-pushing years. Good. It's about time for a return to the suspicions over mandates.

August 15, 2024
In this Nov. 16, 2019, file photo, free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick arrives for a workout for NFL football scouts and media in Riverdale, Ga. (AP Photo/Todd Kirkland, File)

Colin Kaepernick who?

Colin Kaepernick, of national-anthem-hating, take-the-knee, pig-socks-wearing fame, says he's ready to lead an NFL team, any NFL team, any ol' NFL team that'll give him a chance -- to victory -- capital V for Victory! -- to Super Bowl victory! What a guy. And all the NFL owners go: Who? At least, they should.

August 14, 2024
Bibles are displayed in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)

Bold & Blunt: The truths about crime in America

If you want to slow the rate of youth incarceration, the solution isn't to stop jailing criminals but rather address the roots: the family. Most criminals come from broken homes, and that's just a fact.

August 13, 2024
Elon Musk arrives at the 10th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on April 13, 2024, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Free speech is not a matter of debate

Humza Yousaf, the former first minister of Scotland, is thinking of suing Elon Musk after the X owner called him "super racist" on social media. Musk, for his part, said go ahead, dude -- come and get me copper. The fact that this is even a real thing shows how much the concept of free speech has been degraded.

August 12, 2024
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, moderated by ABC's Rachel Scott, speaks at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, July 31, 2024, in Chicago. The backlash against Trump's attack on Vice President Kamala Harris' racial identity intensified on Thursday. Democrats expressed new outrage and some Republicans distanced themselves from Trump's comments that Harris only recently "turned Black" for political gain. Harris is of Jamaican and Indian heritage. Trump shrugged off the criticism and doubled down by posting on social media a new picture depicting Harris in traditional Indian garb. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Americans need inspiration, not politicization

On any given day, the nation's headlines will look like this: 'Donald Trump says polls showing him lagging are wrong.' 'Kamala Harris says Donald Trump is wrong.' 'Joe Biden says his favorite ice cream flavor is still chocolate chip.' This is not news. This is who-gives-a-freak filler being passed off as news.

August 9, 2024
A holy wooden Christian cross laying on a wood background with an American flag. File photo credit: enterlinedesign via Shutterstock.

Bold & Blunt: Fighting for your right to work

The COVID years of Big Government telling Americans they had to stay home and wait for the stimulus check, rather than go to work, have come to an end. But bureaucrats both before and after COVID have been preventing business owners from operating their businesses for reasons that are utterly ridiculous.

August 8, 2024